Mayf,
I have limited experience with this but on our previous car, we ran a turbo
with aluminum heads and did not split the flanges. We had no sealing
problems but that could be dumb luck. It was also a motorcycle engine with
25 lbs of boost.
Howard
----- Original Message -----
From: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>; "JYTURBO" <jyturbo@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 5:49 PM
Subject: Header Flange Advice Sought...
> Dinking around with whatever I can sans shop and thought I would ask a
> question about the turbo headers. My headers are block hugger type and
have
> a single piece flange where it bolts to the heads. Turbo headers get hot.
> Hot means expansion. So would I be better off cutting the long single
flange
> plate into four smaller ones with one hole slotted at each port? This
would
> permit expansion without putting anything into a bind...or would it? Heads
> are aludimum. Of course, as soon as I cut them, they will sproing all out
of
> shape wont they? Murphy's Law or some such.
>
> mayf, the red necked ignorant desert rat in Pahrump..without a shop...yet
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